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Slaves in Bondage · Beat 87 · permalink

Restaurant

45:29–45:51 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:4045:40

Play from 45:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 147–147. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, standing visible
  • man, dark suit, standing near p1 visible
  • multiple seated people, indistinct clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a crowded room with tables and seated people. [frame:1]
Seen
tables [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confused or fragmented; themes: social gathering, repetition, unclear communication; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, crowded composition

A woman in a light dress stands in a crowded room with many seated people and tables; a man in dark clothes is near her. The transcript contains repeated, fragmented phrases about colors and making something, but no clear dialogue or event is established.

“Oh, is it? Baby blue. Baby blue. Pink blue. Say this. What? And how do you make? And how do you make? And how do you make? And how do you make? And how do you make?” 45:31 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Slaves in Bondage (1937) at 45:40 (passage 45:29–45:51); US record: No renewal found

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